Inasmuch as a little knowledge of British history comes in handy for an audience of a Shakespeare history play like Henry IV part 2, etc. contextual information is similarly vital for the full appreciation of a play that seriously deals with the subject of the pastimes of Lord Shree Krishna. It benefits an audience of …
Saint Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109) was the theologean who came up with the famous ontological argument. This argument proposes that God must exist. God is generally defined as “that than which nothing greater can be conceived of,” but some ‘being’ existing not only in the mind, but also in reality, would be greater than God. …
Insofar as so much attention is focussed on the issue of climate change, and the degree to which cows do or do not impact upon it, I would like to draw my reader’s attention to the significant role of cows in Rupa Goswami’s Sanskrit drama Vidagdha Madhava, (translated into English by Arjundas Adhikari as A …
Faithful representation of exchanges of feelings between characters has always been a central objective for the Sanskrit playwright, no less so in the spiritual drama Vidagdha Madhava, aka, A Portrait of Lord Shree Krishna, by Rupa Goswami (translated into English by Arjundas Adhikari). Specious representations of feelings in Sanskrit literature are a major faux pas, …
